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This is an accessible and comprehensive guide to all the major topics of health psychology, including a new chapter on women's health. It is essential reading for all students and researchers of health psychology and for students of medicine, nursing and allied health courses

Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-476) and index

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1. An introduction to health psychology -- 2. Health beliefs -- 3. Illness cognitions -- 4. Health professional-patient communication and the role of health beliefs -- 5. Smoking and alcohol use -- 6. Eating behaviour -- 7. Exercise -- 8. Sex -- 9. Screening -- 10. Stress -- 11. Stress and illness -- 12. Pain -- 13. Placebos and the interrelationship between beliefs, behaviour and health -- 14. HIV and cancer: psychology throughout the course of illness (1) -- 15. Obesity and coronary heart disease: psychology throughout the course of illness (2) -- 16. Women's health issues -- 17. Measuring health status: from mortality rates to quality of life -- 18. The assumptions of health psychology

Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002

digitized 2011

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